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Raglan Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG3 4QE

Contrasting the houses of the 1970s redevelopment of the St Ann's area with the mid 19th century terraced villas on Woodborough Road.

In 1833 a Select Committee on Public Walks recommended the creation of “properly regulated” public walks for the “middle and humbler classes” in order to improve “their cleanliness, neatness and personal appearance” and provide a venue for a man to show off his wife and well-behaved children. Such walks were seen as an alternative to the “drinking shops, where, in short-lived excitement, they may forget their toil, but where they waste the means of their families and too often destroy their health”. It became possible to implement these recommendations after the 1845 Enclosure Act, and by 1852 walks and other green spaces had been established in an arc north of the town centre, from Robin Hood Chase in the east, along Corporation Oaks and Elm Avenue to the Arboretum and the General Cemetery. The Forest recreation ground was also established. A journalist then wrote that “Nottingham might vie with any town in England for its well-grown and well-dressed women of the operative classes who on Sunday throng the park and public walks.” (All of this information comes from “The transformation of green space in old and new Nottingham” in Volume 118 of the Transactions of the Thoroton Society.)

The Jacobean-gabled houses are typical of those built in Nottingham in the 1850s, perhaps to the designs of T C Hine or an imitator. For more about Robin Hood Chase see Image

A view down Woodborough Road towards the stern front and Byzantine domes of St Augustine of England RC Church. Further away in the city centre the tower blocks of the Victoria Centre dominate the lower end of Mansfield Road.

See https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7351925 for location. The church was built 1920-23 in a Romanesque style and is Listed Grade II.

Whatever buildings once stood here to the north of Robin Hood Chase have been demolished.

Like a Romanesque fortress, with shallow Byzantine domes only just visible from this angle.

This is presumably the liturgical west end, with its central door. This Roman Catholic church was built in 1920-23, architect John Sidney Brocklesby, and was listed grade II in 2012 as "an accomplished architectural design that combines modern and traditional materials and construction techniques to interpret traditional forms in a sophisticated and highly individual manner" (list entry 1406263).

Built in 1920-23 in a rather eclectic Romanesque style, Listed Grade II. The original designs show that the two towers either side of the main entrance were intended to be taller with a connecting arch. The flat light when this view was taken means that the white domes, visible in this view, https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4043385 are indistinguishable from the sky, contributing to the rather truncated appearance of the church.

The remains of a lamp post (?) at the side of Woodborough Road near St Ann's Hill, on the descent towards Mapperley.